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Architecture: Form, Space, & Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 900 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,082 ratings — published 1979
Towards a New Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 773 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,039 ratings — published 1923
The Architecture of Happiness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 747 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.86 — 14,817 ratings — published 2006
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 738 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,827 ratings — published 2006
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 735 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,518 ratings — published 1977
Thinking Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 681 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,709 ratings — published 1998
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 678 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,513 ratings — published 1957
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (Paperback)
by (shelved 656 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,592 ratings — published 1996
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 620 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,592 ratings — published 1961
The Ten Books on Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 549 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,783 ratings — published -15
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 526 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,141 ratings — published 1933
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 516 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,955 ratings — published 1957
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 480 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,264 ratings — published 1960
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 473 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,770 ratings — published 1978
Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 410 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,781 ratings — published 2006
Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Paperback)
by (shelved 408 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,144 ratings — published 1980
Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 398 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,637 ratings — published 1972
Experiencing Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,214 ratings — published 1959
S, M, L, XL (Hardcover)
by (shelved 386 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,855 ratings — published 1995
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 378 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,719 ratings — published 1978
The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books)
by (shelved 370 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,344 ratings — published 1966
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 367 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,755 ratings — published 1995
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,490 ratings — published 1999
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 100,694 ratings — published 1972
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,899 ratings — published 1994
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.89 — 340,368 ratings — published 1943
Neufert Architects' Data, Third Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,866 ratings — published 1936
Modern Architecture Since 1900 (Paperback)
by (shelved 254 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,208 ratings — published 1982
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 775,632 ratings — published 2003
Building Construction Illustrated (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,601 ratings — published 2014
From Bauhaus to Our House (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,285 ratings — published 1981
Architectural Graphics (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,099 ratings — published 1974
Yes is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,542 ratings — published 2009
The Four Books of Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.14 — 618 ratings — published 1570
The Seven Lamps of Architecture (Dover Architecture)
by (shelved 209 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.83 — 959 ratings — published 1849
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 206 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,489 ratings — published 2010
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 200 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 849,941 ratings — published 1989
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,446 ratings — published 1971
Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.23 — 768 ratings — published 1965
Architecture As Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 747 ratings — published 1948
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.16 — 495 ratings — published 1941
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.99 — 99,723 ratings — published 2010
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,716 ratings — published 2012
Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.26 — 530 ratings — published 1979
A Global History of Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.24 — 401 ratings — published 2006
The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture (Architectural Design Primer)
by (shelved 156 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 785 ratings — published 2009
Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.12 — 854 ratings — published 2006
A Field Guide to American Houses (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,381 ratings — published 1984
Analysing Architecture: The universal language of place-making (Analysing Architecture Notebooks)
by (shelved 138 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.10 — 571 ratings — published 1997
A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.08 — 616 ratings — published 1985
“Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.”
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.”
― Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure
― Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure












